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Travagnin, Stefania(ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2016)

Elder Gongga (1903-1997), a Chinese Buddhist woman native of Beiping, played a crucial role in the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in China and Taiwan, bridged Dharma traditions, and merged Buddhist and cultural identities; ...

Bowman, Marion(ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2016)

At the core of this article is a significant but generally neglected incident, the clerical sexual abuse scandals that came to light in Newfoundland, Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The focus of this piece is ...

Crosby, Kate; Ashin, Janaka(ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2016)

This article examines how the Buddhist, interfaith and nationalist networks centred on India in the first half of the 20th-century influenced the Burmese monk Shin Ukkaṭṭha. On his return to Burma in 1929, after seven ...

Reader, Ian(ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2016)

In this article I examine the concept of religion (shūkyō in Japanese) with reference to the claims that as a term and category it did not exist in Japan prior to the country's 19th century encounter with Western powers, ...

Pye, Michael(ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2016)

Among the various fascinating features of the religious scene in Japan, the activities of the new religions continue to attract attention. And yet, given their number, and given the predilection of some commentators to ...

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